Tatiana Kosintseva second, Valentina Gunina third (photos added)

GM Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine) won the 2010 Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship. She finished with 20,0/30, a full point ahead of IM Tatiana Kosintseva (silver medal), and 1,5 points ahead of WGM Valentina Gunina (bronze medal).

The competition was the first ever in chess history and was organized by the Russian State Social University and the Moscow Chess Federation in co-operation with the Russian Chess Federation and under the aegis of FIDE. The event was open to all women players representing their National Chess Federations regardless of their title or rating and consisted of qualifications, semi final, and final. The games were 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move, starting from move one (G 3’+2”) and tiebreak scores were based on direct results, followed by number of wins.

The next event for GM Kateryna Lahno will be the Chess Olympiad 2010 where she will play on board 1 for Ukraine.